Maintaining Our Collective Mental Health in an Increasingly Dangerous World (Session 1)

[@annjohnson8437]

Thank you for helping us through these insane times.

[@colettewaddell8362]

I’m so happy to see you once again on KZbin Dr. Lee! We need you now more than ever. Thank you for your guidance and wisdom.🙏

[@beefandbarley]

Thank you very much Dr. Lee. Your experience, knowledge and heart is appreciated more than you know.

[@DramaWatcher630]

I absolutely concur.

[@wendywilson-fall3230]

I love the clear delivery of Dr. Lee's ideas

[@BB-fj4od]

Dr. Lee thank you very much. Many people I know are so traumatized and suffering from the psychic abuse going on right now with politics and injustice in our country, around the world. So much to fear , please make more helpful talks like this one for us. Very appreciative and grateful for your thoughts and therapeutic inputs

[@shellpless7361]

Please keep the videos coming! Your work is valuable

[@johntumpkin3924]

Dr. Bandy Lee is a tireless worker for mental health and social justice.

[@enochpage1333]

Bless you! Bless you! Bless you, Dr Bandy Lee for reminding us that the pathology of fear, fragmentation, and violence can only be resolved with a personal and collective effort to resolve fissure through the healing balm of love. Being grounded in love of others and self is our best chance to maintain our mental health and one day heal our country.

[@leonstenutz6003]

Beautiful. Amen. ❤😊

[@destinyfive]

All praise to those seeking for our sociological mental health.

[@paulaharris4667]

Thank you Dr. Bandy Lee!

[@BonitaBrandt]

I regret greatly that Dr. Lee was stopped by the American Psychiatric Asso. in 2016 when she was trying to warn this country about Trump. It is a ridiculous assumption that a person who is in the public eye, also, would have to been seen in a controlled psychiatric session in order to be diagnosed. Thank you, Dr. Lee. I hope we see more of you.

[@Poco555]

@@BonitaBrandt Hi, and thank you for your post. I had no idea that this acutely aware and knowledgeable doctor was ‘stopped’ by the APA for warning us, especially given her warm and also impersonal manner and her careful choice of words. If you have a moment, would you tell me more about that? I have heard her calmly relate the facts, the real facts, and then draw conclusions about a prognosis of him from those facts. It all made perfect sense and she took no political side, but spoke as an expert on his mental health. I cannot, for the life of me, wrap my head around how and why she incurred punitive measures, I mean FOR WHAT? She was right, and IS right. Apologies, I don’t mean to direct my anger about this at you. Is she still licensed to practice? How dare anyone stop a doctor who has first hand knowledge of him, from laying out the truth about his emotional and mental incapacity to run the PTA, to those who will suffer from his psychopathy. And yes, how is it that a candidate for president would need a private psychiatric evaluation anyway and, having been diagnosed, still be allowed to run for the office of President of the United States? It makes me want to slap somebody, you know? Thank you so much for reading this, and much gratitude and grace to all who have a voice and post here. Always, Jo

[@Gabbyness41]

@@Poco555and she was also dismissed from Yale, where she was a professor. This situation has become much worse since then. She truly understands what is happening.

[@benderenns]

This is very profound!

[@CoolBreezeAnthony]

I am suffering severe depression and anxiety because of Trump. Since I am bipolar and elderly and taking care of my sick wife, I frequently break down and cry as I feel completely helpless to do anything about MAGA & Project 2025. Even praying and reading my bible doesn't seem to help as much as I wish it would. Problem is I am Catholic and despise Trump and Elon Musk and Shady Vance and Kash-app-Patel. Knowing what Trumpism stands for makes me feel like I am living in a time almost as bad or perhaps worse than when Hitler took over Germany!

[@Gabbyness41]

@ you’re not alone, my fellow American. I’ve been screaming this from the rooftops since 2015 and everything i have said has come to fruition. This man will take us all down with him on the Titanic. He will burn us to the ground, just so that he can be The King of Ashes.

[@Akindmind-oe7ol]

Valuable commentary on our current situation. Thank you

[@markmartin9577]

Thank you Dr. Lee

[@stacylaetsch3672]

THANK YOU DR LEE --- PLEASE KEEP SPEAKING!!!!

[@celestejamerson5281]

Thank you so much, Dr. Lee! This is so beautiful and healing.

[@CarolTaff-bb9ts]

I consider you the ultmate role model on KZbin for intelligence, morality and decency. Thank you.

[@chryssanthistell]

Words full of wisdom! The more darkness seems ro embrace the wor lol d, the more we must bring firward love, hope, and all the ftuits of the spirit!

[@WilliamHunterII]

"Love is as essential to the soul as oxygen is to the body." -- Dr. James Gilligan. That is beautiful.

[@krissipowell9358]

God as love isn't practiced for national Christianity because revenge reigns for the narcissistic religion Mythical as political intelligence doesn't show reality

[@EllenKlever-c7k]

'Holding firmly to truth' (Mahatma Gandhi) is such a lifesaving raft in a sea of madness. Thank you dr. Lee. ❤

[@melaniebrehl6632]

Thank you. Amazing commentary regarding love and connection.

[@artistlovepeace]

I love that Dr. Bandy Lee is producing and sharing wisdom, facts and her opinions. We need more education, mental health help and people like her to explain what life is all about. If you have mental sickness please seek help.

[@debracarlson5511]

If you are suffering, seek help. It is so helpful.

[@crotalusatrox7931]

Your words are needed more now than ever.

[@davidhouston4810]

I learn so much about the Human Condition from Dr Lee, though it is often troubling.

[@laurastrom9857]

Thank you for continuing your work and wisdom. We are in need of this.

[@deborahlukovich8006]

This is fantastic. Going to share in a newsletter. I’m a depth psychologist so quoting Jung got my attention immediately.

[@erniesandoval9669]

So true Dr Lee, United we stand, divided we fall.

[@briankoehler8500]

Thank you Dr. Lee for your ongoing compassionate efforts to heal the nation's wounds as exemplified in our turn to fascism, hate and fear, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, climate degradation, collective splitting, pathological identification and violence.

[@hopesnopes]

I couldn't have phrased it as clearly and beautifully as you have, and you absolutely nailed it, THANKS❤

[@lizaphelps]

The outgrowrh, as she says, of lack of love.

[@jillatayceramics2542]

Oh Dr. Lee, this is the most beautiful talk I've heard since the beginning of this nightmare. You are a gift to us all. Thank you and may you continue to inspire us.

[@deedsterskater3011]

Dr. Lee is indeed a gift. Just what I was thinking. We are lucky!

[@mongoharry7765]

Thank you, Dr. Lee, for the help you're offering our world. 🌎

[@Brent-pk6wz]

Thank you . Needed this.

[@jamesbishop9156]

I missed you...

[@gazellesneedlework7057]

Thanks so much for sharing this, Dr. Lee. Please continue to share these videos as we live through these difficult times….

[@bonita5527]

Thank you Dr.Lee. I appreciate your help in educating us with your wisdom & bringing awareness. Everyone should be listening. I have much respect & admiration for you. God bless. ❤🙏❤

[@janiebuck2938]

Thank-you for addressing this crisis. I've followed politics closely since 2016, and I became so terrified that I literally "lost my mind". I had to be admitted to the hospital where I had to stay 2 weeks for them to stabilize me. Those who already have a mental disorder need to be especially careful. I have bipolar disorder and was being treated for it, and I still lost it.

[@jaelo2314]

Glad you are here to share. Many of us care for others, knowing that we all need help getting through life. It's your humility and humanity that make you one of the better people among us

[@lauralafauve5520]

I'm glad to hear you made it through. When I began to realize our government acts like a huge dysfunctional family with a side of alcoholism it gave me a handle to understand some of their behaviors.

[@lisareynolds9734]

Hope you’re doing well.❤️

[@Gabbyness41]

Sending you many many hugs and hoping for your well being. Hang in there. We’re with you. ❤🙏

[@robynjoan1778]

I too have bipolar disorder. I have been under medical care with a psychiatrist since 1997. I am 62 years old and have been a Registered Nurse for the past 39 years, which can also be very stressful. I was working that horrible night in 2016, and was absolutely dumbfounded that this sociopath was elected president. I was horrified. It was a difficult 4 years for me. I was so relieved when President Biden was elected. He has been a very good president for the common people. This year I was absolutely positive that the majority of people would understand just how awful and traitorous he has been and Kamala would be our 1st female president. I once again was working the night of November 5th, when the absolutely unthinkable happened. I was beside myself. I went numb inside. I couldn't even cry this time. All I know is this state of feeling dead inside. I had 2 emergency psychiatrist appointments within the 2 weeks that followed November 5th. Then on the day after Thanksgiving, l lost my most beautiful, my most wonderful fur baby. Yes I am one of those childless, cat ladies. The world is a very dark place for me these days. I have made a firm commitment to my friends, that I will never commit suicide. My mother had this same disorder, and did kill herself, when I was 3 years old. I am grateful for these podcasts that are featuring how to cope with how depressed and anxious so many of us are, knowing what the next 4 years will bring us. Even if the felon doesn't make it 4 years, we will be faced with JD Vance. Both of these 2 will allow Project 2025 to go forward, destroying all our rights and our democracy. I will keep following these types of podcasts. Somehow we will cope with this, together 🫂

[@songsforsale427]

OK this woman is now officially my favorite person. I pray she starts her own channel

[@mariajoanna5364]

This is her channel.

[@Julee-4]

Thank you Dr Lee nice to see you😊❤

[@CoolBreezeAnthony]

Trump is the complete opposite of Jesus. I follow Jesus. I pray a lot. I sincerely believe in the power of prayer. I will pray for all of us here in chat. Peace and Love to all of you from Dallas Texas.

[@dannybagley9424]

One thing we need to do is not surrender. We need to hold the line and fight for what is right and good.

[@GarySteinbrecher-g2s]

I absolutely love that wonderful woman! What an exceptional person she really is!

[@EclecticOmnivore]

Dr. Lee; You are a Casandra speaking truth. There are too few ears open, but there are open ears. I am encouraged to find more and encourage more people to listen. I am hopeful, and you add to that hope.

[@JaneStanton]

Thank you for your work, I wish EVERYONE peace.

[@jamesbishop9156]

10:54 All things are alive. SHE IS EVERYTHING! Let it be received, please?

[@doricetimko5403]

Thank you, Dr Lee. Your bravery, consistency, dedication and experience are deeply appreciated 💜

[@jinntoliver]

Thank you, Dr. Lee. I sincerely appreciate your work and your voice!

[@clintmiller2908]

Wow. This being entitled session one gives me hope. I look forward to further sessions.

[@leesteffenshunter8895]

Dr.Lee I have been following you and your words of wisdom and hope since the Trump Syndrome began. I appreciate how you draw upon the wisdom from the Sage’s that have come before. You have presented a well organized and succinct explanation of the current state of affairs in psychological terms. I take comfort from your expression that Love is the answer. Thank you!

[@rootsiebee]

Validating 🕊️ in a way that allows for a balance without self righteousness. Thank you.

[@notnamed813]

Thank you for this profound podcast on love. 💗

[@aaronharel4437]

I have been thinking of your work for some time. I greatly appreciate your response to our individual survival and our collective survival. These past few months have been spiritually difficult. I will work more diligently to look for truth in love. Again, thank you. Aaron

[@timothymorton303]

This is incredibly good and very resonant with a lot of work I've been doing.

[@snarkyboots]

Thank you. ❤❤❤

[@sandymcpartlon9972]

Gratitude, love and joy

[@steveshehan5291]

Merci !!!!!!! Thank you !!!

[@WisconsinWanderer]

looking forward to this thanks 😊

[@Bellaghy22]

Thank you for your voice of incredible reasoning. Your smart and knowing approach to our political problems is unmatched by any other contributor, but close to Mary Trump’s. I can’t thank you enough. 💕

[@suzanneashe8106]

You are an amazing guide to us all.in these terrifying times. Please, continue directing us!

[@lindawellner5415]

Thank you in all ways!

[@cherishthechild5432]

Thank you for your wise and insightful words especially during these trying times

[@fuzbugg]

people really don't like to talk about it but love is extremely important for health and well-being. It just sounds so flowery and maybe even silly but it is just the truth

[@rosieE121]

Thanks for the enlightening and intellectual explanation of how love is a basic need.

[@pianozzino]

Thank you Dr Lee ❤

[@Dot-Dot-Dash]

Thank you so much Doctor Lee!

[@susannenielsen3612]

Thank you so much Dr. Lee for your courage and wisdom. Love and respect from Europe 😃

[@Plumduff3303]

You are brilliant bandy ❤

[@ericaelliot4367]

So articulately stated. Thank you.

[@camille9803]

I needed this. Thank you.

[@josephgonzalez8972]

Thank you Bandi. Have a good night 🎉.

[@halehsh1]

Thank you, Dr. Lee. I share your talks/videos with anyone I know, but I wish the media would start inviting you regularly. I know that with the current situation, this might not be easily achieved, but there's still hope that one of them will show courage and make the difficult decision to do their job. They should stand firmly against misinformation and provide the public with the truth and facts, which is what they signed up to do.

[@hroper5964]

That's right when society takes everything from you - home, family, money. Then you have nothing to lose.

[@SinergiasHolisticas]

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rdmoon4416]

Thank you for giving us clarity, explanation and vocabulary. I’ve been thinking the same thing but without the correct lens. I see more thank you, Dr Lee. 🤲🏼

[@eleonorabartoli2225]

Thank you, Doctor!💛

[@DiNY-u9k]

Dr. Lee, Thank you so much for your service to humanity. It is crucial. We are in the worst time that humanity has faced in over ten thousand years. Not only has greed become the dominating factor in the United States but it has caused devastation around the world. We are now in the sixth mass extinction event according to science. We are headed toward extinction. Only if this is addressed quickly in the proper manner will humanity survive. Personally, I am completing the writing of my book entitled Heinous. How Psychopaths Destroyed the World. This needs to be spoken of broadly. Only then can change be affected. God bless you

[@mswetra2610]

They destroy the world and families. I have one in my family and the devastation was complete. I could not fix it. I could only escape.

[@DiNY-u9k]

@@mswetra2610 My heart goes out to you. I have lived a hellish life starting in infancy, not that I remember but I was told. I was raised by a psychopathic father who I thought would murder me or one of my siblings. I lived in a constant state of fear growing up. My mother was a sociopath with no love in her heart. She would not protect us. She enjoyed watching. I married and divorced two dishonest and violent men. The only love that I have experienced in life is from my children and grandchildren. I consider all that I have been through a blessing, though. If I had not gone through everything I went through, I would not have realized the truth. I would not have been prepared for the time in which we are now living. I would not have seen through the lies. I would be as many others, completely oblivious to who these people are. A couple of the lines in my book are that they can be murdering you behind closed doors then walk out into the street, look people in the eyes, smile in their faces and act like nice people. They are great actors. I have two living siblings who I have nothing to do with. One has Stockholm Syndrome and is violent. The other is either a sociopath or psychopath. He is violent but in a different way. He always was. I have always thought that if murder victims started showing up in my area, I would tell the police to look at him. Yes, I know what evil is. With what I have learned, I can expose these heinous people, the violent ones and the greedy ones. I can possibly help to reshape the world to be a better place. I can bring my knowledge to those who have no understanding of these people. My suggestion to you is to find a positive outlet for your pain and anger as I am doing. You don't have to write a book. Your calling might be to help women, children and even men who have been victimized. You have a wealth of real life knowledge that you have gained. You can use your knowledge and compassion to help those who are being victimized. It will help you to help others. God bless you

[@llm8268]

Dr. Lee, agreed. And great talk. The fragmentation and division within the individual and the collective leads to every external problem we have. Darkness cannot evolve, it can only replicate. The higher way is always UNITY. That is a given in the higher world. The further we sink into separation and division, the more destructive we are to each other, to our planet and to all life on it. But things have to be faced before they can be resolved.

[@annemurphy8074]

So true. I have D.I.D from growing up with horrific trauma. Life has been absolute hell. We didn't start getting better until all of us in our D.I.D system began to realize we all share the same body, mind and life. We had to learn how to get along become a team, a community, very different from the absolute violence and soul murder we were forced to live through for decades. We were trafficked from age 2 on and experienced and witnessed some of the worst of human evil. To us, it looks like the world has a collective form of D.I.D., a divided, fragmented collective psyche, just like our psyche was shattered. There are evil people who purposely try to shatter the psyche. The only way for healing is to find what we have in common and to work together for our collective well being. Who we ALL really are and are part of, is Love, a shared Being.

[@leonstenutz6003]

3:00 "Love is as essential to the soul as oxygen is to the body." - James Gilligan "A flower cannot bloom without sunshine and a human cannot live without love". "Eine blume kann nicht blühen ohne sonnenschein und ein mensch kann nicht leben ohne liebe". ~ Max Müller.

[@jamesbishop9156]

11:57 Thank you for confirming for me that it is strictly the environment that controls mental health...

[@WillNewcomb]

Sounds like a call to be loving and understanding. Fits in well with Steven Hassan's recipe for interacting with Trumpers. But I'll admit it's hard when I'm filled with rage and anger, not only at the Trumpers but also those who stayed at home and didn't bother to vote!

[@nadiazayman779]

Yes, it is challenging to be tolerant of the intolerant and to not other those who are prejudiced and other vulnerable members of society.

[@MAG1235]

Not comforting, but refreshing to hear all this being spoken aloud and outright.

[@producer2123]

Beautiful thoughts, Doctor Lee!

[@jamesbishop9156]

Love does what death can not.

[@cuana2]

Thank you. I am glad to hear from you ❤

[@limousinlil]

Thank you, Dr. Lee!

[@EclecticOmnivore]

In the long span of time -- over hundreds of thousands of years; a few million if you count our near ancestors -- we have had good and bad times. With all the distress, I remember Seneca. In his comments there was disrepair, yet his disrepair was not of an inevitable tragedy but of a misunderstanding of the inevitable better times. Inevitable if we are there to nurture and fight for it.

[@bonita5527]

Dr.Lee you are appreciated & loved. We need to hear truth, encouragement & guidance on how to manage our mental health.

[@tammyfitzgerald5336]

Empathy and respect ✊🏾 morals and ethics Ty God for my emotional intelligence ❤🎉

[@jamesbishop9156]

6:03 Death can not do what love can.

[@Horrorbabe4]

My psyche is at risk of dying lol

[@Sociology_Tube]

this individual level psychologist is 100% identifying group-level sociological U.S realities

[@jillwentworth6711]

We :LOVE you so much!!!

[@JH-mr8se]

❤❤❤

[@margaretesulzberger2973]

Thank you Dr. Lee for explaining the contagious nature of lunacy. What about Elon Musk? What are his traits and what is his relationship with Trump from a psychological point of view?

[@JamesLTyreeII]

So, just as people who did not suffer from psychosis can be returned to their baseline state that they had previous to the contagion, it appears that the good people who make loving environments are keeping that environment that way, and in a vacuum, that does not existwithout continual encouragement and guidance and implementation

[@LindaCramer-jg9bv]

❤

[@JaniceSyndergaard]

Dr Lee,I purchased your book,The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,updated & expanded edition. Thank you!

[@deedsterskater3011]

Folks, look at the contrast here between this wise woman reminding us of what is valuable versus the "rich" men bowing before the wannabe American dictator. They do this out of their fetishization of money. Let's take heart here. We're all in this together. We will not be defeated.

[@ResistEvolve]

It seems a huge percentage of the American population do not know a charlatan when they see one!

[@CoolBreezeAnthony]

I am right with you!

[@StefaniStevensBand]

YES! I sometimes comment under mean posts- WE ARE ALL ONE. I so far never got a come back. I Hope they get it!

[@RebeccaJacklin]

Timothy Snyder speaks, ep.1-16: YT ep.4: Sadopopulism ep.8:Cybercolony USA ep.13:Cyberfascism ep.14: Politics of Eternity, Politics of Inevitability every episode contains a wealth of information

[@mfm4582]

Thanks for posting the Snyder links. What he predicted 7 yeas ago has come to pass.

[@Poco555]

Jung also said, paraphrased, that there is nothing more dangerous than the ‘herd mentality,’ or more dangerous

[@ladavis1959]

Excellent 🥰🥰🥰

[@johnarmlovesguam]

I dread returning home to the US after 35 years abroad. It's got that 1930 Nazi vibe along with a hint of the late Austro-Hungaria empire. What has happened to u.s.?

[@pamelafeeney8086]

This is not a good time to return. I suspect many who can will be spending time away.

[@stevekaylor5606]

Everyone should take up agapeic love, while taking up Renaissance practices!

[@jkershaw100]

"We live in a world of violence of our own making" Quelling our inner violence would then be the antidote by accepting the beauty and newness of all things.